she joins us now from the emergency shelter this morning. good morning, julie. >> reporter: good morning, john. yeah, i'm here with jim mallory from the american red cross. we are at this emergency shelter. this is the primary shelter where people have been coming. tell us -- i know there are a lot of supplies, a lot of food and volunteers but you're saying you're asking people to really slow down and go to the website and donate money not come in with supplies. >> we always rely on financial donation as well as blood donations for the work that we do because we don't get any government subsidies. we are a volunteer organization. so that's really important to us. >> reporter: why should people not bring more supplies here? >> well, the red cross really doesn't have the staff to sort and clean it and that kind of thing. there is a group of volunteers behind us here who have been working all night to sort these things that have been donated. the people of the area have just been wonderful about coming in and dropping things off, pillows, cloth